Tottenham suffer Morgan Gibbs-White transfer blow as contract talks 'opened'

Nottingham Forest are reportedly in talks with Morgan Gibbs-White about signing a new contract. The 25-year-old was set for a move to Tottenham Hotspur after they triggered the midfielder’s £60million release clause, but the transfer stalled earlier this month.

Forest are considering legal action against Spurs over an alleged illegal approach for Gibbs-White, who moved to the City Ground from Wolverhampton Wanderers in the summer of 2022 and still has two years left on his Forest contract.

However, according to The Athletic, Forest are now in talks with Gibbs-White about signing a new contract.

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Gibbs-White joined Forest for £25m in the summer of 2022 following their promotion to the Premier League and was instrumental in delivering European football to Forest for the first time since 1996, with seven goals and eight assists in 34 Premier League games.

The England international was on Manchester City’s radar earlier this summer, but Pep Guardiola’s side moved on to different targets.

Speaking earlier this month, new Spurs boss Thomas Frank was tight-lipped on his club’s pursuit of Gibbs-White.

“I will not speak about players who are not mine,” he said. I think I have two exceptions and they are getting older – (Cristiano) Ronaldo and (Lionel) Messi. The rest I will just speak about the players who are inside Tottenham.”

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